The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... Attempts to combine Philosophy and Scripture Distinct Objects of Revelation Geological Interpretations of Scripture Representation of the Creation in Genesis Admission of Contradictions Adaptations to the Ideas of the Jews ...
... Attempts to combine Philosophy and Scripture Distinct Objects of Revelation Geological Interpretations of Scripture Representation of the Creation in Genesis Admission of Contradictions Adaptations to the Ideas of the Jews ...
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... attempt to supply some of the deficiencies . On points where I feel obliged to differ from them , I have in general avoided specific controversy or criticism , and have usually stated my own views and arguments simply as they arose out ...
... attempt to supply some of the deficiencies . On points where I feel obliged to differ from them , I have in general avoided specific controversy or criticism , and have usually stated my own views and arguments simply as they arose out ...
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... attempts at a better elucidation than is commonly afforded . And in immediate connexion with these topics , the relation in which the scripture stands to philosophy , ( especi- ally where its expressions may be opposed to the ...
... attempts at a better elucidation than is commonly afforded . And in immediate connexion with these topics , the relation in which the scripture stands to philosophy , ( especi- ally where its expressions may be opposed to the ...
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... attempt to expose ! Yet , at the hazard of offending all such prejudices , I shall proceed to an unshrinking examination of the real order and connexion of the evidences of physical science , natural theology , and Revelation , as ...
... attempt to expose ! Yet , at the hazard of offending all such prejudices , I shall proceed to an unshrinking examination of the real order and connexion of the evidences of physical science , natural theology , and Revelation , as ...
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... attempts have been made to frame some sort of theory to represent its laws , but none hitherto with more than very partial success . But are we , therefore , to infer that there really exists no fixed law , or regular cause of the ...
... attempts have been made to frame some sort of theory to represent its laws , but none hitherto with more than very partial success . But are we , therefore , to infer that there really exists no fixed law , or regular cause of the ...
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